Hello everyone!

I’m happy to introduce PCM Studio, a new database, career-save and visual-mod editor for Pro Cycling Manager.

The goal is to create a modern PCM editor that is fast, approachable and pleasant to use, even if you have never worked directly with database tables before.

This is the first public release. It is numbered 0.2.1 because several development milestones were completed and tested privately before release.

Download PCM Studio 0.2.1

Download the Windows installer

Windows 10/11 · 64-bit · Pro Cycling Manager 2026

What can PCM Studio do?

PCM Studio can open both PCM databases and career saves. It provides the traditional table editor, but also includes friendlier workspaces for the most common editing tasks.

Current features include:

• Automatic discovery of PCM installations, databases and career saves
• Dedicated workspaces for cyclists, teams and races
• Editing related records without manually searching through different tables
• Fast searching, filtering and sorting
• Saved views for frequently used table layouts
• Bulk-editing tools designed around PCM data
• Guided creation tools for cyclists, teams and races
• Safe row creation and deletion
• Database comparison tools
• Referential-integrity validation and a pre-save health report
• Automatic timestamped backups before overwriting files
• A recovery screen for restoring previous versions
• Jersey, team-logo and cyclist-photo previews
• A built-in Visual Mod workflow

Visual Mod workflow

PCM Studio can read PCM 2026’s Unreal Engine asset files directly. No Unreal Editor or external Oodle DLL is required.

You can:

1. Open a database or career save.
2. Make your database changes.
3. Open the Asset Manager.
4. Choose jerseys, logos or cyclist photos.
5. Import replacement PNG images and preview them.
6. Stage several replacements in the Visual Mod workspace.
7. Save the database and build everything as one mod package.

When database edits and visual replacements are both present, PCM Studio asks whether you want to:

• Save only the database; or
• Save the database and build a combined Visual Mod package.

The generated .pcmstudio-mod package contains:

• The edited CDB database
• An optional CDI companion file
• One combined Unreal Engine patch PAK
• A manifest describing the mod
• Installation instructions

PCM Studio never modifies PCM’s original pakchunk files.

The .pcmstudio-mod file is a shareable package rather than a file that PCM opens directly. Installation instructions for the database and PAK are included inside the package.

Safety first

PCM databases can contain thousands of relationships, so PCM Studio includes several safeguards:

• Original files do not need to be overwritten.
• Existing destinations receive timestamped snapshots.
• New relationship errors are detected before saving.
• The health report distinguishes new problems from issues already present in the database.
• The application warns when PCM or Steam Cloud may still be using a save.
• Visual mods are written to separate PAK files.

Even with these safeguards, keeping a personal backup of important careers is always recommended.

Release notes — PCM Studio 0.2.1

Database and save editing

• Native support for PCM CDB files
• Fast table browsing and editing
• Cyclist, team and race workspaces
• Related-table information shown in the same workspace
• Reference-aware field editing
• Safe record creation and deletion
• Guided cyclist, team and race creation

Finding and managing files

• Automatic PCM installation and save discovery
• Recent-file library
• Separate handling of original databases, career saves and edited copies
• One-click opening of discovered files
• Automatic snapshots and recovery
• Remembered game and artwork locations

Power tools

• Advanced search and filtering
• Saved views
• Domain-specific bulk editing
• CSV import and export
• Database comparison
• Integrity validation and pre-save health reporting

Assets and visual mods

• Direct reading of PCM 2026 Unreal PAK files
• Built-in pure-Rust Oodle decompression
• Jersey, logo and cyclist-photo previews
• Persistent staging of multiple replacements
• Combined Visual Mod package creation
• Pixel verification before a visual package is accepted
• Original game PAKs remain untouched

Application experience

• Dark and light interface themes
• Custom PCM Studio window and application icon
• Collapsible workspace sections
• Responsive asset library
• Automatic update support
• Portable and installer editions

Current limitations

• This release is currently focused on PCM 2026.
• Replacement images must use the exact dimensions of the original texture.
• Game-ready replacement currently targets the uncompressed texture formats used by PCM 2026 jerseys, logos and cyclist photos.
• The application is currently available for 64-bit Windows.
• A .pcmstudio-mod package must be installed according to its included instructions; PCM itself does not open this package directly.

Roadmap

Features planned for the future! If you have any other suggestions, please let me know!

- PCM 2025 support

Feedback and bug reports

This is the first public release, so feedback is extremely valuable.

If something goes wrong, please include:

• What you were trying to do
• Whether you were editing a database or career save
• The PCM version
• The error message
• A screenshot, if possible
• Steps that reproduce the problem

Please do not publicly upload career saves containing personal information. If a file is required to reproduce a problem, arrange a private way to share it.

I would also love to hear which workspaces, bulk-editing tools and creation wizards would be most useful next.

Thank you for trying PCM Studio!

I hope it makes editing and creating content for Pro Cycling Manager faster, safer and much more enjoyable.

PCM Studio is an independent community project and is not affiliated with Cyanide Studio, Nacon or the official Pro Cycling Manager development team.

Edit*: updated downloadlink*

Well the title says it all, Seixas being as young as your pro cyclist when you create it makes objectives so much harder. Mostly if you hope to get u25 jerseys in the 3 GT it’s almost impossible because Seixas will be there every time taking them from you and he’ll be 25 when you’ll be too. It may not be that important but it frustrates me a lot that I almost can’t fight for the u25 classification, also because Del toro will be there in the beginning also. And when you have progress enough to at least play for the u25 jersey, Seixas will be at his prime and takes the gc and the u25.
(English isn’t my first language)

Tend to upgrade PCM every couple of years, last played PCM24, currently looking at PCM26.

Have watched a bunch of streamer reviews of 26, and they all seem to be really negative about it, but pretty much every reviewer also seems to be fairly jaded by the 25->26 changes.

Curious on whether to heed the reviews, or whether the changes from 24 to 26 is going to be a more positive experience.

Hey guys,

just a couple of questions:

- Does ist take more off your stamina (yellow bar) if you use to hold position or use the dot?
- What decides the speed of your cyclist if the yellow bar has zero stamina left?
- Ist there any way to find out how much stamina an opponent has left? Like animations. (I would even accept a cheat here for experimenting)
- What colour on mountains/hills stands for which ability being mainly used? Green, Orange, Red, Black
- How does the ability of the outliers work? When is it activ and which bonusses does it provide?

Technical issues:

- I am missing stage textures, some of mine are washed up even though the rest is on maximum. It concerns also the names written on the street by fans. Completly washed up, can't figure out a single name. Is there a known way to fix that?
- Unfortunately profiles of older reitred cyclists get deleted. And under results you can see just like the last 25 results of the grand tours. So if I can't remember the winners for example, I had no chance to look it up anymore. Can I change it?